Nevada Books

Great information for the budget-conscious traveler. Informative and honest reviews are very helpful, especially for hotels and restaurants.

As a UK visitor to Las Vegas I have found it a very handy and the best guide on the market with up to date rieviews of shows and hotels with plenty of tips for especialy for us people across the pond

I enjoyed reading all the information from the work. A good book to take with you on your trip to Las Vegas. It well be helpful for restaurants, entertainment ideas and just places to have fun.
The maps in included with the book are also helpful.

This is a great guide book for Vegas. The author has personally visited all the hotels and attractions and is very honest in his reviews. His is an "everyman" perspective matching well with what I've found when I've visited there. He also provides updates and corrections on the website http://vegas4visitors.com , which is really helpful when this town changes on a weekly basis. I highly recommend this book for any first-time Vegas visitors and also anyone who wants to know what they missed when they were there.

I love this guidebook. I've been looking at many travel guides for Vegas lately, but this one is by far my favorite. It contains a witty writing style that matches the feel of the city. The author is brutally honest about every sight, lounge, hotel, and restaurant, lending his own experiences as trial runs for vacation planners. For me, restaurants and hotels are the areas I need the most help with while traveling, and this book did a great job of breaking down the pros and cons, fronting advice, and reassuring my travel worries. This guide really helped to sort out the overwhelming choices. I highly recommend it!

A great read. I think I have read all the Whitney books and this one, by far, is the best.

Before hiking Mount Whitney, I browsed a few books on the topic. This book was the most informative and interesting to read. Not only are there interesting anecdotes about the hike, including some of the messages left in the guestbook at the top, the book is well organized and readable. The book divides the hike into parts, making it easy to envision before attempting a hike to the summit. This is a wonderful book written by the owner of the Whitney Store.

There is alot of great info about the hike, and the town of Lone Pine, and some historical info on the Mt Whitney as well, mostly aimed at beginners. The trial descriptions and map are good but not great. But over all the book gave me a great idea of what to expect. The trail is very well maintained so you don't really need a map anyway. We did the hike in 16 hours. Left at 2:45, summit by 11:00, back down to the portal by 6:15.

In addition to being an excellent guide book, this book is also extremely entertaining. The FAQ section is hillarious.

If you're planning a trip to Mount Whitney, you need this book. It contains the most comprehensive trail guide on the market, with detailed descriptions and photos to help you visualize the hike. There are also many other helpful chapters, such as: Bears, Wildlife, Weather, Your Success Factors (hints for mental and physical preparation), and background history of the trail.
Furthermore, this book carries a guarantee by the authors: "If you feel this book doesn't prepare you for a summit attempt, we'll refund your money." Written by the owner of the Whitney Portal Store, it's a gold mine of information and advice!

It would be wrong to judge Steve Gerber by just one comics story.

But if there is one story that captures most of his sensibilities as an author in one work it's probably this one. It features the innately bizarre landscape of Las Vegas, musings on good and evil, homeless bums who are secretly super-heroes, and the underlying nature of the Universe (much like Countdown to Mystery: Doctor Fate). It also features a stripper with a pet bird that sometimes seems to talk (not very much like the beloved Howard the Duck, but there is a certain resonance). A hard-boiled crime drama with otherworldly perpetrators going on in the background. There is even a two-bit crime boss with a lava lamp head and a gorgeous mafioso daughter.

I can't figure out how he fit them all in one story.

But he did. It's like watching a magician make an elephant disappear. You know there MUST be a trick. But you can't see how it's done.

If you only want to try one Gerber work. . . maybe this one will whet your appetite. Then come back for the rest.

Nevada (her name) is a Las Vegas stage performer - performing with her pet ostrich, Bolero. She's about as hard a case as any, and keeps it that way. She has a few friends, including a dancer paradoxically named Bianca and the casino's resident geek, Rip. It's a good enough life. There are lots worse lives to live, including wino Ogden Locke's, di Vesuvio's (if you call that living), and the lives being taken in bizarre acts of dismemberment.

That's when her life turns weird. Not just the usual kind of stalker - she can handle that well enough. It's things like ancient Greece appearing in the ladie's loo that get to her, with Locke delivering oracular warnings from his seat on the porcelain throne. But Locke couldn't possibly have been there, and it just goes down hill from there. Against her will (and there's a lot of will), she's off on a hallucinatory journey of transformation. After her trials of spirit, she emerges as ...

Well, see for yourself. She's about halfway between Moore's "Promethea" and Ennis's "The Pro" in humor and attitude, though she precedes both by a few years. Gerber has driven innovation in comics since the 1970s, with his landmark "Howard the Duck." This work unites his writing with some of the best comic art and lettering in the industry. This looks like the opening chapters of a story that was never finished, but what's here is easy to enjoy.

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This book exhibits all the quirkiness, along with amazingly believable and likable characters, that made Gerber's classic work at Marvel (on "The Defenders," "Tales of the Zombie," "Man-Thing," "Omega the Unknown," and "Howard the Duck") such joys to read and re-read. "Nevada" is further strengthened by the way the realistic art of Phil Winslade makes "Nevada" feel very matter-of-factly, even while its main character is facing hoards of extra-dimensional monsters, or falling to pieces during a mind/body spiritual test that becomes a little too literal.

"Nevada" is a joy to read and re-read.

What can I say ... the short series collected in this volume has a real woman for the lead character, vivid characterisation, heaps of intelligence, a sharp critique of modern society and humanity in general, and an exposition of an existentialist, yet non-materialist philosophy unlike anything you'll find elsewhere in comics. The fantastic milieu of Las Vegas and alternate dimensions is rendered in a wonderful and realistic style by Phil Winslade ... Clearly, a special labour of love by Gerber and Winslade, which, along with Gerber's Howard the Duck volumes, comes very highly recommended to anyone who loves comics, but wishes more of them had intelligence and soul.

Wow, I'm surprised no one has reviewed this book! Originally a six issue mini-series from DC Comics' Vertigo line, this comic has it all: a beautiful strong woman, who also happens to be a Vegas showgirl, a pet ostrich (named Bolero), a gangster with a lava lamp head, strange murders, and much more. Steve Gerber has written one weird story here, as if Las Vegas wasn't already surreal enough. Nevada, the main character, is a pretty unique woman in the world of comics. She's tough, but more in a psychological way than your typical Amazonesque superheroine or babe with big guns. She's sexy, but in a real and naural way. The artwork is good too, supplied by Phil Winslade and Steve Leialoha. This is probably one of the best Vertigo mini-series ever (along with Peter's Milligan's ENIGMA and Paul Pope's HEAVY LIQUID.) If you like Grant Morrison's stuff, you'll probably like this too. Gritty and surreal just the way you like it!

The photography is top-notch and covers the desert, cities, and old buildings from the early mining days. Where the book fails is its treatment of the high mountain scenery. Where are the photos of the alpine regions high up on the many lofty peaks? They are not there.

This book is the most lovely pictoral tribute to the Great State of Nevada that I have ever seen. It exemplifies the rich physical and social geography as well as the cultural, institutional and entrepenurial spirit that this state holds so dear. Truly beautiful.

This is a beautiful book.

However, Jon Christensen' s essay 'Basin and Range' really caught my attention. It turns out that this region is quite special, rich in unique species and lessons about evolution. Christensen compares the 'Great Basin sky islands' with the more famous islands of the Galapagos.

This book is the perfect combination of big color photographs and four well-written essays. The Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company of Portland did a fine job.

This beautiful book took me into the heart of a State I thought I knew. Nevada is fantastically photogenic and each picture in this volume shimmers with desert light, somehow stripped of all dullness. The text is of the rare sort, in the vein of Mark Twain, in whose footsteps Christensen clearly walks. He takes us on a tour, starting in his backyard and then into Nevada's secrets, its history, its indigenous people, its gold and silver rush, its divorce economies, its casinoes, its restricted government areas... He entertains and at the same time we learn to see behind the scenes. This is a book to give anybody who has been to Nevada or who is planning to go. A perfect marriage of image and text.

"Nevada" has been sitting on my coffee table for about a year now - and it's served well. I've come home many days after being enmeshed in our modern world for 10 or more hours and been reminded of the expansiveness and beauty of the natural world that's only a 4 hour drive away from me. This is a well-written and beautifully photographed book. I have to admit that I'm fascinated with Nevada. With the great otherness and open space that is the Silver State.

I learned quite a bit and was entertained by the essays that divide the sections of photos with chapters including: "The Meaning of Nevada", "People and the Land", Basin and Range", and "Prospect and Chance." There is good history here about Nevada's people and it's geography, helped by quotes from the likes of John Muir, Mark Twain and authors of other Nevada oriented books as well as regular folks who like their home state.

However the real draw is in the photos. Scenic, evocative, large, well footnoted, just plain beautiful. I really felt like this is a book crafted by people with a love and appreciation of the place that is Nevada. As though they wanted to share their passion and knowledge with me. I also like the simplicity of the look and feel of the book. There's a frankness and openness that's reminiscent of the state of Nevada itself.

Enjoy!

I can't believe how much information this book has. I wondered why it has almost twice as many pages as other books on the subject, now I know.

How I wish, I found this book first! I could have saved myself a lot of time and money.

I read this book in one sitting - 7 hours. I just could not bring it down. This book answered for me three important questions, 1) Why should I incorporate? 2) Why should I choose Nevada? and 3) How do I incorporate in Nevada?

The depth of the answers provided by Rowley is assuring. It appears to be complete and authoritative. With this knowledge I am now in a better position to do my own homework!

This book appears to deliver what it promised. I think I am going to read it again.

I like Rowley's style of writing: it is simple and straight to the point -- a real time saver! How I wish that Rowley will write one more book -- something like entitled, "Taking Care of Your Nevada Corporation."

I have bought several other books on incorporating and have often been disappointed to find out that what promised to be informative was mostly a glorified sales piece for some company or seminar speaker - lots of hype but little information you can use yourself without their help. This book was different! Filled with all the info I need to setup and maintain Nevada Corporations (has info on LLC's and Wyoming corps too!) Best book on the subject I have ever seen!

This is a great book! It not only teaches you the benefits of incorporating in NV, it also provides detailed info on different kinds of companies and tax saving strategies.

Please note, the latest edition (as of this writing) is the 9th Edition. I accidently bought the older 8th Edition. You can check the most current edition at the publisher's web site:
http://www.strategicpress.com/

A book on a subject like this is a situation where you'd really rather look over the various books in a bookstore rather than buy online. But after looking over all the books I could find online, I decided to buy this one. I am very pleased with it, with one quibble: the price. The content is good, the book is nicely printed and bound, but even so ... ouch! $65.95?! At any rate, the reasons I bit the bullet and bought it are: (1) I got the feeling that a lot of books on this subject are shill come-ons for Nevada "incorporation advisors"--I did searches on the net for some of the titles, and they came up on pages of such outfits, obviously written by the people behind the businesses, who tend not to have any formal legal training; the Rowley book is not a shill job at all. (2) Rowley has put a good chunk of his book online where you can read it for free; I'd put the URL here, but Amazon would delete it; nevertheless, if you search for it and read the content, it gives you a good preview of the book (although the juicy stuff, like the sample articles of incorporation are not online). (3) About a third of the book consists of reference material like the Nevada Revised Statutes, which are available online at the Secretary of State's site (where you can search for words in your browser), but it's nice to have a printed copy. With this book and a resident agent (look online at the Secretary of State's site for a complete list), you can do the incorporation yourself.

This is nature writing which deviates quietly and profoundly from the main American currents. In the 1940s, Sally Carrighar spent her summers in a cabin in Sequoia National Park. She distilled her observations into this exploration of the experiences of nine creature during a single day near the same granite cliff. The interlocking portraits are engaging and convincing. Carrighar keeps the inevitable anthropomorphization to a minimum. Her descriptions allow us to enter into the animals' sensations and impulses. A deer mouse "wanted the walls of the nook to press her all over, but however she crouched, one of her sides had no touch of shelter on it." A lizard is tempted by "a gamey, delicately tart green leafhopper." A chickaree giving an alarm call "jerked, as if he were a little bag filled to bursting with bright sound that piped out whenever the bag was jostled."

Unlike Thoreau and all his literary descendants, Carrighar does not focus on the spiritual reverberations of nature in the human soul, and she does not speak of herself. In his introduction to the California Legacy Book edition, David Rains Wallace highlights her "down-to-earth, impersonal" approach. Today's nature writers, perhaps influenced by postmodernism and multiculturalism's emphases on individual perspective, rarely attempt to enter the consciousness of other beings. Perhaps they avoid cuteness, projection, and presumption that way. They also miss a chance to help us realize that other creatures exist as hungrily as we do.

As a veteran reader of nature writing, I am embarrassed to say that I felt surprised when this book made me remember that the animals I glimpse and don't glimpse on the trail must have continuous, emotional and sensory lives. I felt like going outside to watch a bluejay for an hour. I felt that the jay wouldn't bore me and I might be able to figure out what the he was up to.

Carrighar didn't entice me with the promise of objective knowledge of a secret kingdom. Rather, she made me wonder if I could achieve a sense of home in that kingdom through intimate knowledge. Though she never describes her own process of observation, Carrighar offers herself as a teacher. With her clear, faithful gaze, she comes as close to joining the community of Beetle Rock as a human can.

I haven't finished reading this book because I don't want it to end. Each chapter takes you through the same day as the other chapters, only from the vantage point of a different animal. Most humans don't have a clue as to the life of any other species 24/7. The detail, the nuance, the empathy that Carrigher brings is stunning, without being anthropomorphic. I'm starting a book club based on this book.

Each chapter is about a day's adventure of one of the animals (Weasel, Sierra Grouse, Chickaree, Black Bear, Lizard, Coyote, Deer Mouse, Stellar Jay & Mule Deer) on the rock and surrounding forests and meadows. Sally Carrighar compresses her observations into one day and weaves a fine tale of the activities and imagined-thoughts of each animal.

This is one of my favorite books. Carrighar writes about the lives of nine animals during one day in Sequoia National Park, one chapter per animal. Each animal interacts with the world and fellow creatures in its own way, and each has its own problems and anxieties -- which creates dramatic interest. Carrighar anthropomorphizes her characters, but convincingly and unobtrusively -- how could you avoid it in a book of this type? The writing beautifully describes sounds, scents, the play of light on leaves, etc.

This book, written from the point of view of each of a series of animals living around Beetle Rock, follows the web of life and illustrates the beauty of the natural world. This is a book for anyone seeking to understand the natural world, and anyone who truly loves animals.

This brand spankin new book feels like modern times even though it takes place in the 50s. The girl Dani and her friends Stormy develop an elaborate plan to runaway. Soon, Pixie, a strange girl with weird parents comes too. This book is full of irony and humor. I recommend it to anyone who feels down in the dumps.

We are a girl and a boy in the fourth. The story Runaways is about an adventure. The adventure is about two girls and a boy named Pixie, Dani, and Stormy, when they try to run away.They think Pixie's parents are mad scientists. Dani's mother, Linda, thinks that Stormy's mother is mistreating him. Read about the adventures of these funny kids while they try to raise money to run away!

We think this is a good book to read because it has a lot of adventure in it. Billions of kids will love it. We give this book a thumbs up. We loved the part when Dani, Pixie, and Stormy we're trying to run away forever back to Sea Grove. We also liked how the narrarator used the beautiful words. Read the book it's great.

The book "The runaways" is about a 12 year-old girl named Dani. She wants to runaway back to Sea Grove where it's better where there's a better view. She lives in Rattler Springs in the middle of a desert where it's so ugly. Her friend Stormy wants to run away with her, but she doesn't have enough money for two bus tickets. A new kid in town named Pixie overheard Dani talking about the plans for leaving. Know she want's to run away. Now they definetly don't have enough money, that soon changes. After Pixies birthday, they get $110! Their plans fail, but the good thing is that Dani gets another house that is better even though she is still in Rattler Springs. Pixie is going back to her grandma's house. Stormy stays with Dani in her house.

Runaways is a story of 3 unhappy kids, from 3 different families, who come together with plans to run away from home, each for their own reason.

The story is set in April of 1951. Twelve-year-old Dani decides to run away. A nine-year-old boy named Stormy, who always turns up to scare Dani senseless, finds out about Dani's plan to runaway. He tells Dani to let him go or he will tell on him. Dani has no choice but to take him along. Stormy, of course has his own reasons for wanting to go along. Than a new girl named Pixie moves to town and attaches herself to Dani and Stormy. Soon she figures out their plan and invites herself along. Dani and Stormy are suspicious of Pixie because she is a very strange girl, and also the biggest liar in town.

You will follow along on their adventures and mishaps. And along the way see the lesson they all learn from this experience. Kids, you will understand the feelings these kids have and what they go through. A good book for Children ages 10 and up.

Finally, a book that captures the unique beauty and solitude of the Great Basin. This is the ultimate book for any naturalist who wants to know more about this large and little visited corner of the world.

This book is a must-read for anyone who loves the smell of Sagebrush after a rain and the austere wildness of the Great Basin. It is apparent that Stephen Trimble loves this land and makes it clear that the country between the Wasatch and the Sierra is brimming with life. Trimble evokes the Great Basin like no other. If you respect writers like Edward Abbey, 'The Sagebrush Ocean' is a great factual resource to back up any conservationist leaning.

If you were to only have one book on the Great Basin - this should be it. It covers the flora & fauna of this least know section of the lower 48 in a comprehesive, yet not belabored fashion. Plenty of salient details with a minimum - though adequate - smattering of scientific jargon. Even though I have worked for a public land management agency in the "Basin" for over 2 decades, I learned much and enhanced my understanding of things I did know. The photography by Trimble captures the inescapable beauty of the area that is unknown to the typical drive-through-as-fast-as-you-can tourist. There is no finer book - verbiage or photographic - on this largely unpopulated jewell of complex arid ecosystems.

This book was GREAT! Between the pictures and maps I found an author who shows a great deal of expression, passion and dedication to his work. Using common names for plants and animals except when specific subspecies are mentioned made the book much more readable for a layperson such as myself.

My next trip to the Great Basin in Oregon will be more fulfilling and educational as much of my ignorance about this special area has been dispelled.

To date this is the best money I have spent on a book about the Great Basin.

(Originally wrote this in 1999 and feel even stronger about this book in 2004!)

If I were to recommend a single "must have" book about the Great Basin Desert, this would be the one! It is the single best one-volume introduction to the natural history of the Great Basin that I know of, and is well illustrated with his own photography. He was writing on behalf of the Desert Research Institute, and spent six years on this particular project. Stephan Trimble exemplifies the best traditions in writing about Natural History. He combines the scientific reason and clarity of a Voltaire, with the poetic sensitivity of Rousseau. My copy is so bedraggled from being packed all over the Basin, I've got to get a new one soon!

I made good use of this book to plan a wonderful cross-country trip in the Sierra. Roper was kind of vague at times, but I never got lost.

The route he described was breath-taking. I intend to use this book to plan next summer's trip.

My girlfriend and I recently took some of Ropers advice on a Mt. Conness Loop 5 day hike in Yosemite. It was an increadible trip. Roper gives just enough hints to get you there but few enough to make it still feel like exploring. Be advised however when he referes a section of your hike as 'adventurous' or 'exciting' he means it. We pushed ourselves to the physical and mental limit on this trip.

A FANTASTIC book about an awesome wilderness area! This is a must do hiking trail for me. I bought my brother this same book and I'm already planning our hike.

This book outlines a magnificent experience following an off-trail, higher version of the Muir Trail through the High Sierra. We have followed most of Roper's route over several years: sometimes we thought we were lost or overwhelmed, but it always turned out fine, and usually excellent. He treads a fine line between complete instructions that would allow no mistakes, and an experience that gives the hiker their own opportunity for route-finding, discovery, and growth. This is one of our favorite books, and we keep an intact copy plus another one torn apart for each journey and sometimes given away to people met along the way who need it. We still travel the trail some of the time, but genuinely value this alternative farther away from the crowds.

This book is the ideal companion for everyone who likes walking off-trail on uneven terrain with a heavy pack. We used it last summer to hike a section of "the high route" (from devils postpile to tuolumne meadows) and it was so marvelous, we are going back this summer for another section. Roper gives exactly the amount of indications needed for a successful trip, although some experience in off-trail mountain-hiking is required. The high route is not trivial, even if no technical climbing is involved. The only thing: for most people it doesn't matter to have a single connected route. It would be nice to have other (shorter) routes in the same style, which are not necessarily connected. Maybe in another book? I don't know of anything comparable.

I'm pleased to see that academia is now starting to look to subcultural doings as they happen, instead of invoking the fond nostalgia that the Beatniks inspired. The ability to digest and deconstruct the events that take place in this otherworldly space is much to be commended, and I think that by doing so the authors of these various articles may be tapping in to something most of their colleagues shy away from. The articles themselves are intriguing and scholarly, but never lose sight of their subject. I would love to see more editions of this book as the event (and the world around it - the context) changes and grows!

in these pages? Read this book and you will. Tho the author comments that this book was a composite of many different burning an festivals, te undercurrent feels strangely like one which puts you there in the middle of things.

There are a few details which, if you've been there, are a little flaky, and the book gets off to kind of a slow start (ergo the 4 stars) but as you bury yourself in this read (and it's one read that, if you're at all a burner, you will end up burying yourself in) you will be amazed... engrossed... wind blown... with a lot of little surprises thrown in that you don't expect, even all the way at the end.

There is another thing, tho... if you've never been to Black Rock City, and wonder what all the hubbub is about, ad you want to know if that ticket's worth it... and what it's getting you into... this book will give you a fairly good idea. Of course, your experience is your own... but, like I said in the beginning... read this, and you can almost smell the playa dust in these pages...

Critical writing up to any academic standards fused with a joy in language and topic. Wonderful! It will make your mind spin with ideas, and what could be better than that!

Prior to reading this excellent sophisticated introduction to Burning Man, I had dismissed this event as shamanism and tantra for amateurs. However, these well written, knowledgeable, and at times quite learned articles, have convinced me that Burning Man allows for the creation of authentic rituals that are rife with both transformative and aesthetic epiphanies. Moreover, it appears that Burning Man has largely not yet been" recouped" (to the use Guy Debord's term) by bourgeois capitualist society, and thereby succeeds where its predecessors, the Surrealists and Situationists, left off. Next year, instead of visiting the Himalayas or Mongolia for my taste of the (w)holy other, I will just go to Burning Man.